Hello, I encountered roons message “Too many failures - stopping playback” on my own PC. While I could play on my two different stereos from my Nucleus. Clearly the fault was in my PC. Turned out that after updating Windows - my soundcard software had changed to 5.1 sound instead of 2.0 or just plain stereo. When changed my soundcards software to stereo it works. Seems roon can´t handle 5.1 sound which - of course it is not meant to do. I think this can help a lot of people. It has nothing to do with the network. Best regards Ronny
Depends. Very often, this message does have something to do with the network, but not always, so what you found is another helpful thing to check.
Roon is meant to handle 5.1 sound. It’s not very common for users to have a lot of 5.1 files, but the software certainly will handle it, although I have seen some instability with it.
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Roon is perfectly stable with multichannel. I have been running 8 channels through it for years. The fault is more likely elsewhere. Perhaps your “sound card” is somehow incompatible with the Win update or, more likely, the update has defeated/corrupted relevant PC settings.
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Well, unless it isn’t. About a year back Roon would reboot itself whenever I initiated 5.1 playback to a particular endpoint. Now, I’m sure the endpoint configuration had something to do with it, but causing Roon to reboot should fairly fall into the “instability” category.
But otherwise it has worked for me, and I’m glad it works for you.
Playing multi-channel files has worked for me since the beginning of my time with Roon, going on 6 years now. Originally with HDMI from NUC/Rock to AVR and later over the network to an 8 channel dac. I use both currently, NUC HDMI to AVR for PCM 5.1 and Networked with DSD/PCM 5.1. No issues.